Research About Military Supplies Of Northern BattleField During The Period Of Northern Song

After the Northern Song established, the problem of Western Xia troubled the Emperorand Ministers of Northern Song. War happened and failures of Northern Song wereconstantly, although politics, culture and economy of Northern Song were all superior toWestern Xia dynasty. The main reason is that the poor logistics limited combat capability ofNorthern Song army, especially the battle in Lingzhou at the time of Song Taizong andSong Zhenzong and the battle of expedition to the Werstern Xia dynasty.Before the period of Song Shenzong, the logistics materials mastered by the TransportDepartment, if the expense is great than income, the court will give some materials likemoney or foodstuff to make up the local finance. After Song Shenzong ascended, in orderto increase the repertory of materials in northwest, which come from Sichuan provincetransported to Shaanxi province, all the money and foodstuff was mastered by the affiliatedagency of the Transported Department, but the Company Secretary captured a little powerfrom the Transported Department, so the Transport Department lost control andmanagement of military supplies. At the time of Song Shenzong, the way to gather militarysupplies and the logistics controlled by both the Transport Department and the CompanySecretary promoted the army. But at the end of the North Song, over a long period of warand the governor’s corruption resulted in financial emptiness, the decentralization of poweraggravated the contradictory between people and the governor, because every departmenttry every means to collect the military supplies, which hurt people and weakened thefighting capacity of army.Because of the battle field of Song and Xia located at desert or loess plateau, lack ofmilitary supplies is urgent, the governor ordered people to transport military supplies, whichburdened people and weakened the finance of northwest area, even the governor know thedefect of this policy and to take every means to lighten the burden of people, but under thiscircumstance of the long war between Song and Xia, the burden will not be lightened.